Actor and director Yves Rénier, who notably played commissioner Moulin for more than 25 years on TF1, died at 78, we learned on Saturday. Passionate about various facts, Yves Rénier left his mark on the small screen by directing successful TV films inspired by major legal cases. Some will remember “Jacqueline Sauvage, it was him or me” which was the best audience of the year 2018 for a French fiction, with more than 8 million televiewers. Yves Rénier had mentioned two other of his productions on the Lagardère group radios: the film The persuit of 2021 which concerns the Michel Fourniret affair, on RFM, and the TV movie I just wanted to go home on the Patrick Dils affair at the microphone of Europe 1 in 2018. “I think [ces affaires sont] a mirror of our time, “he explained on RFM.
“Somewhere, it represents us. It’s a bit us”
For him, these court cases were akin to “a reflection of our society”. “Somehow, it represents us. It’s a bit like us,” he said. When it was pointed out to him that some of the news items he dealt with were terrible, he simply noticed that “there are sides that are not good in society.” About The persuit, a film which traces the beginning of the Fourniret affair and the hunt for the serial killer and his wife, Monique Olivier, Yves Rénier said that he was notably “interested” in …
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